This time last year, the Blue Mountains were covered in smoke from raging bushfires; today parts of it are blanketed in snow. A severe storm that has battered New South Wales over the past day has cut power to tens of thousands of properties, prompted dozens of flood rescues, brought down trees and ...

Most of the people whose property was damaged in the State Mine fire near Lithgow last year are still waiting for compensation, despite the Australia Defence Force (ADF) admitting liability and apologising....

The Defence inquiry into October's destructive bushfire on a military base near Lithgow in New South Wales has heard approval would have been given to set off a lot more explosives on the day the blaze broke out....

The Australian Defence Force has launched an independent inquiry into the massive State Mine bushfire that was sparked by live ordnance last month. Defence Chief General David Hurley says retired Sydney judge John O'Meally will preside over the inquiry into the fire which began near Lithgow in ...

The State Mine Fire started near Lithgow in New South Wales on October 16th 2013, and burnt east into the Blue Mountains. It was one of the largest fires in recent NSW history. The fire burnt over 55,000ha of land and while only three homes and a few sheds were lost, the blaze caused major disruption and ...